Recreating A ROOTS RADICS Song - Pt 2 - Mixing the BIG SHIP Riddim with DM Kahn

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In this video Kahn dives deep into the mix of his recreation of the Roots Radics backed song 'Big Ship' by Freddie McGregor. Kahn explains his track level, bus level, and master bus level techniques and plugins used in shaping the mix.

Time Stamps:
0:00​ – Intro/Stems info
1:32​ – Note about top-down mixing
2:26 – Comparison of the final mix and no plugins
5:34 – Kick drum
12:00 – Auxes explained and saturation/gain stages rant
16:00 – Hi hat and expander technique
21:32 – Snare
29:12 – Snare BOOM trick
32:20 – Overheads
35:35 – Timbale
36:53 – Toms
39:20 – Drum Bus
44:16 – Bass guitar
47:43 – Kick/Bass guitar relationship
51:10 – Piano
54:28 – Guitar
56:25 – Percussions
58:40 – Overall volume levels thought process and pan
1:00:00 – In the box reverb (I will cover this better next episode)
1:00:30 – Outboard reverb for snare splashes
1:02:41 – Mix bus processing
1:10:50 – Outro

Plugins used:
Plugin Alliance Lindell 80 channel strip
Plugin Alliance Bettermaker EQ
Plugin Alliance Brainworx Console N channel strip
Logic onboard EQ
Logic onboard reverb
Logic onboard flanger
Slate Virtual Tape Machine (VTM)
Slate Virtual Mix Rack (Slate Gate, VTC)
Slate FG-X Limiter
Slate Infinity EQ
Soundtoys Little Radiator
Soundtoys Decapitator
Softube Tape
Waves Kramer Pie compressor
Waves API 2500 compressor
Waves Abbey Road Vinyl

Equipment used:
VO Mic: Mic Parts S3-87 on cardioid
VO Preamp: LA610 Mkii (EQ and light compression used)
Board: Midas Venice F24 with Firewire I/O
Outboard reverb: Furman RV-1
Outboard delay (on vocal) - Roland Space Echo Re-201
Cameras: Canon 6DMkii with Sigma 16mm 1.4F (main shot)
Canon M50 with Canon 22mm 2.0F (intro shot)
Iphone 12 Pro Max (board shot)
Screen Capturing - OBS
Computer - Mac Mini 2017 3.2Ghz 64GB ram

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